OCTGN on non Windows systems

Warning this is currently experimental.

If you're going to be reporting bugs, please tag them as Wine, and also add it to this page to centralize them, if possible.

With 3.1+ versions of OCTGN, it's possible to run it on non-Windows systems using Wine, Winetricks, and native dotnet.
The install only takes a few minutes if you are a bit familiar with the command line.
This page will try to help you through it step by step but some parts might be different for your distro.

Prerequisites.

Linux:
wine 1.5.29+ (download here)
winetricks svn826+ (comes bundled with wine)

Mac OSX 10.5.3+:
wine 1.5.29+ (1.5.5+ if you install X11/XQuartz)
winetricks svn826+
(both are available via MacPorts, Fink, or Brew. Preferably not Brew.)
XCode is likely a requirement, as well, since most packages will have to be built.

Mac OSX 10.7+:
Some form of samba, for its winbind implementation, as Apple dropped it starting on 10.7. There's some packaged options, or use MacPorts/fink/brew

Install wine.

Linux:
Follow the guide on the wine website on how to download the wine 1.5 beta.

MacPorts:

sudo port install wine-devel winetricks

If you need samba:

sudo port install samba3

After install:
Do not install mono. Make sure you set it up as a 32 bit prefix:

WINEARCH=win32 winecfg

Optionally (preferrably), put it in its own prefix:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-octgn winecfg

Set up dependencies:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-octgn winetricks -q vcrun2010 dotnet40

Install octgn.

Go to http://www.octgn.net and download the latest version. Run the install with wine from the terminal:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-octgn wine OCTGN-SETUP-VERSION-STRING.exe

When that completes you should be able to start octgn:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-octgn wine ~/OCTGN/OCTGN/OCTGN.exe

If it starts go to options and disable hardware acceleration for a much smoother operation of the program.

Troubleshooting

• Font issues osx - http://www.reddit.com/r/Netrunner/comments/2l45mb/octgn_for_mac_help/clrlu4j
• Wine's implementation of WPF doesn't play well with multiple monitors. Use virtual desktop instead.

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-octgn wine explorer /desktop=octgn,1440x900 ~/OCTGN/OCTGN/OCTGN.exe

Or make it permanent by setting it in winecfg.

• Unusable/blank interfaces on first-run can also be mitigated by using virtual desktop so you can disable acceleration once you're in. Worst case scenario: Edit an existing, or create a bare config file with acceleration disabled.
  ~/OCTGN/Config/settings.json

{
  "UseHardwareRendering": false
}

• After the loading screen, if you have an unusable and black window, you can change the SSL configuration to fix it by setting the "IgnoreSSLCertificates" to "true".
  ~/OCTGN/Config/settings.json

{
  "IgnoreSSLCertificates": true
}

• Having mono installed in the same prefix will break things. If you did install it, uninstall with

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-octgn wine uninstaller --remove '{E45D8920-A758-4088-B6C6-31DBB276992E}'

before installing dotnet40. If you've already installed dotnet40, you can add --force to reinstall it:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-octgn winetricks --force dotnet40

Or just wipe the prefix and start over:

rm -rf ~/.wine-octgn

#Related Issues

• #794 (Closed)
• Cannot join a game using custom fonts

Old notes

At the moment only games hosted from the server work. (Needs testing; unsure if still true)

You might have to install a file called gacutil.exe and its config file to the winetricks cache to get .net to work property. I will include this link at a later point.(But google is your friend here). Deprecated. Wine 1.5.5+ and Winetricks svn826+ fixes this.

#Play on Linux / Play on Mac script At the moment it works only in linux due to dotnet40 and vcrun2010 issues on mac.

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-11630-script_Octgn.html